Caught in the Race Against Time: Black Radical’s Last Will and Testament

This bibliography accompanies the presentation, “Caught in the Race Against Time: Black Radical’s Last Will and Testament,” presented at the American Studies Association, 11/22/2025

Bibliography

Berliner, Lauren S. “Like No One Is Watching: Taking Digital Obscura Seriously.” JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies 63, no. 3 (2024): 164–69.

Fanon, Frantz, Richard Philcox, and Anthony Appiah. Black Skin, White Masks. 1st ed. New York: Grove Press, 2008.

Hall, Stuart. Writings on Media: History of the Present. Edited by Charlotte Brunsdon. Durham: Duke University Press, 2021.

James, Malcolm. Sonic Intimacy: Reggae Sound Systems, Jungle Pirate Radio and Grime YouTube Music Videos. 1st ed. New York, NY: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2020.

Mann, Larisa Kingston. Rude Citizenship: Jamaican Popular Music, Copyright, and the Reverberations of Colonial Power. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2022.

 McKittrick, Katherine. Demonic Grounds: Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle. 1st ed. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006. 

Moten, Fred. “Black Op.” PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 123, no. 5 (2008): 1743–47.

Muñoz, José Esteban. 1999. Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Snead, James A. “On Repetition in Black Culture.” Black American Literature Forum 15, no. 4 (1981): 146–54. 

Veal, Michael E. Dub: Soundscapes and Shattered Songs in Jamaican Reggae. Middletown, Conn: Wesleyan University Press, 2007.

Womack, Ytasha. “Introduction.” In Boogie down Predictions: Hip-Hop, Time and Afrofuturism. Roy Cristopher, ed. London: Strange Attractor Press, 2022.

Disc/Filmography

Black Radical Mk II. The Undiluted Truth (A Black Man’s Leviathan). Mango MLPS 1070. 1991.

______. Last Will and Testament. Good Find Records. 2020.

Johnson, Linton Kwesi. Bass Culture. Island Records. 1980.

Onwurah, Ngozi. Welcome II the Terrordome. Los Angeles: Delta Entertainment, 2001 [1995].

Public Enemy. Fear of a Black Planet. Def Jam. 1990.

René & Angela. Wall to Wall. Capitol Records. 1981.

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